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MARGARET D. KAMITSUKA | Mary Magdalene was tarred with a misogynous and anti-sexuality brush from the start...

SIR PAUL NURSE | Human beings like things to be ordered. That's how we are. But maybe cells and living things are more sloppy. Perhaps the cell has to be sloppy to avoid, as I said, getting stuck...

SAMUEL LONCAR | Supersessionism thus fights its enemy not with swords, destined to become ploughshares, but with time itself. The very nature of history is against the Jews, because they have not adapted to the new time inaugurated by Christianity...

ELIJAH PERSUES BLUMOV | Many poets wish to be prophets–Leconte was one.

ELIJAH PERSEUS BLUMOV | English is like a cavern filled with a dragon’s hoard of words from different places and times, and our writing thrives on the unparalleled richness of our diction, French is like a jewel box containing only a modest selection of precious stones...

BENJAMIN M. STUDEBAKER | MacIntyre and Geuss disagree, but their disagreement has been so very civil.

SAMUEL LONCAR | Socrates is so important, he is the measure by which we depict historically important individuals, beginning with Jesus of Nazareth...

SHANNON CRAIGO-SNELL | Theological attempts to subjugate eros have not prevented harm so much as inculcated shame...

CARLOS EIRE & PTER HARRSION | Partw Two of Marginalia's three-part cpnversation series...

JAN BURZLAFF | Kaplan writes about people trying to stay human in inhuman conditions, of the psychic architecture required to withstand endless deferral...

AMIT MAJMUDAR | The Gita is so infinite because it's one of the few—or only, to my knowledge—religious texts that takes as a given the idea that human beings all have different temperaments and that different things are true to different people, and it builds from there several different pathways to the divine.

TIM O'LEARY | If we want to make progress towards perceiving Paul with historical accuracy, Mathew Novenson argues in Paul and Judaism: At the End of History, then we must try to identify the source of all this confusion...